John Howard Filmography

The Club

Actors: Jack Thompson, Harold Hopkins, Graham Kennedy, John Howard, Frank Wilson

A Man's Gotta Do

Actors: John Howard, Rebecca Frith, Alyssa McClelland, Gyton Grantley, Amie McKenna

Synopsis: A family man and working stiff has a lucrative but illegal sideline in this comedy from Australia. Eddy (John Howard) makes his living as a fisherman in a small coastal town in New South Wales called Shellharbour -- or at least that's what his wife, Yvonne (Rebecca Frith), and his twentysomething Read More

Japanese Story

Actors: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Matthew Dyktynski

Synopsis: Following their feature debut, Road to Nhill, in 1997, screenwriter Alison Tilson and director Sue Brooks team up again for the Australian drama Japanese Story. Toni Collette stars as Sandy Edwards, an ambitious geologist who is most comfortable when working alone. She also runs a software design Read More

Take Away

Actors: Vince Colosimo, Stephen Curry, Rose Byrne, Nathan Phillips, Brett Swain

Synopsis: Marc Gracie's Australian comedy Take Away concerns a business rivalry between fast food entrepreneurs. Starting with a segment that shows the birth of fast food, the film quickly establishes the relationship between Tony (Vince Colosimo) and Trevor (Stephen Curry). The anal Tony runs a fish and Read More

The Man Who Sued God

Actors: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Bille Brown, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: Directed by Mark Joffe, Australia's The Man Who Sued God centers around Steve (Billy Connelly), an ex-lawyer who is unable to collect insurance money for his destroyed boat. Deeming the accident an "act of God," Steve decides to sue the man at the root of his problem -- namely, God. Anna (Judy Davis Read More

Always Greener [TV Series]

Actors: John Howard, Anne Tenney, Michala Banas, Daniel Bowden, Natasha Lee

In a Savage Land

Actors: Martin Donovan, Rufus Sewell, Max Cullen, John Howard

Synopsis: Australian director Bill Bennett sets this exploration of sexual politics and cultural differences against the stunning vistas of the Trobriand Islands. In it, two anthropologists travel to a remote island in the South Pacific to study its culture in the 1930s. Evelyn (Maya Stange) is an Read More

Frontier

Actors: Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Jerome Ehlers, Chris Hayward

Dating the Enemy

Synopsis: A pair of disparate battling lovers get a chance to live in each other's shoes in this lively Australian sex comedy. Though they have been together over a year, Tash and Brett have reached a point where they believe that neither understands the other. Tash is a serious, highly intelligent science Read More

The Girl from Tomorrow

Synopsis: The Australian children's adventure show The Girl From Tomorrow was the saga of Alana (Katharine Cullen), a teenaged girl from the year 3000. Through a wrinkle in time, Alana found herself hurled backward to 1990, along with a time-travelling villain named Silverthorn (John Howard), who hailed Read More

Sweethearts

Actors: John Howard, Christabel Wigley, Henry Maas

Synopsis: Because he is loaded with money, "Z" (John F. Howard) is able to retain the person, if not the affections, of the woman he loves. In fact, despite the fact that neither one of them is satisfied with the relationship, Z is so in love with Juliet (Christabel Wigley) that he is grateful she's still Read More

Young Einstein

Actors: Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard, Pee Wee Wilson, Su Cruickshank

Synopsis: The life of legendary scientist Albert Einstein is re-imagined as a slapstick farce in this comic fantasy. Changing Einstein's country of origin from Germany to Tasmania, the film shows the scientist's eventful youth as he creates rock & roll and discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom. Read More

A Cry in the Dark

Actors: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Bruce Myles, Sam Neill, Nick Tate

Synopsis: A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early 1980s was the most hated woman in Australia. While visiting the Ayers rock monument in the Outback with her husband Michael (Sam Neill), Lindy notices a dingo creeping into the tent where Read More

Around the World in 80 Ways

Actors: Philip Quast, Allan Penney, Gosia Dobrowolska, Diana Davidson, Kelly Dingwall

Synopsis: Australian Allan Penney must not only endure the encroaching exigencies of old age, but also the indignities perpetrated by his unfeeling wife Diana Davidson and his bragadoccio ex-business partner Rob Steele. Davidson bundles Penney off to a nursing home while she embarks on an around-the-world Read More

With Time to Kill

Actors: Ian Scott, James Clayden, Peter Green

Synopsis: Two detectives decide to take the law into their own hands after they determine the court system has failed to serve justice. Ian Scott and James Clayden play the cops who want to permanently press the mob kingpin known as The Laundryman (Peter Green) into unemployment. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

Over the Summer

Synopsis: This undistinguished "country-punk" version of teens apparently maturing into what passes for adulthood may not quite have made the transition itself, since it seems geared to a young teen audience. When Tina (Laura Hunt) from the big city of Atlanta goes to spend the summer with her grandparents Read More

Heart of the High Country

Actors: Valerie Gogan, Kenneth Cranham, John Howard, David Letch

Synopsis: A woman starting a new life in a new land finds that fate has some unpleasant surprises in store in this made-for-TV drama. Ceci is a young woman in her teens who has decided to leave her home in Great Britain and strike out on her own in rugged New Zealand. While Ceci finds fortune in this Read More

Strikebound

Actors: Chris Haywood, Carol Burns, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rob Steele, David Kendall

Synopsis: The miners strike in the Australian coal fields during the 1930s provides a factual basis for this drama. The organized miners protest against the use of scab labor and the dreadful working conditions. But nothing is resolved and the tension climaxes with the miners, some of them members of the Read More

Razorback

Actors: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue

Synopsis: Before he directed the cult classic Highlander (1986), music video creator Russell Mulcahy adapted this stylish, tongue-in-cheek horror film from the novel by Peter Brennan. Gregory Harrison stars as Carl Winters, a grief-stricken American husband who has come to a remote corner of Australia to Read More

The Highest Honor

Actors: John Howard

Synopsis: The Australian Highest Honor is comparatively little-known outside its country of origin, which is a shame. Set during World War II, the film details the unusual relationship between an Australian army captain and his captor, a Japanese security officer. The war has made these kindred spirits Read More

Bush Christmas

Actors: John Ewart, John Howard, Nicole Kidman, Mark Spain

Synopsis: An entertaining and exciting adventure story for any age, Bush Christmas, set in the Australian outback, has three tense situations developing along parallel lines: Ben (Peter Sumner) and Kate Thompson (Vineta O'Malley) have to pay off the mortgage on their homestead by January 1st or they lose Read More

Minami Jujisei

Actors: Atsuo Nakamura, Kinya Kitaoji, Hosei Komatsu

Synopsis: Some of the complexities involved in the murder of 5,000 Chinese in Singapore during World War II are considered in this joint Japanese-Australian film. After the British surrendered Singapore to the Japanese, the Imperial Japanese Army unit known as the kempei-tai or a kind of military police Read More

The Club

Actors: Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John Howard

Synopsis: Bruce Beresford directed this adaptation of David Williamson's play (Williamson also scripted) about the ever-widening gap between professional sport and its boardroom intrigues. Jack Thompson is Laurie, a once popular ball player on the Australian Rules football circuit, but now an ineffective Read More

The Queen of Spades

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold

Synopsis: A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal of a poor Captain in the Russian army in the nineteenth Century. His comrades in arms play cards nightly, but he cannot afford to join them until one night he dreams that he has gained from a Read More

Waltz Time

Actors: Carol Raye, Peter Graves, Patricia Medina, John Ruddock, Harry Welchman

Synopsis: In this British costume musical, Carol Raye plays Empress Maria, a young woman of noble blood who has fallen in love with Count Franz Von Hofer (Peter Graves), one of the men assigned to guard her. Maria's guardians attempt to dissuade her interest in Franz because of his reputation as a Casanova Read More